Feb 15 Reporter’s Notebook: The Family Planning Frontier in Guatemala By Ray Suarez A week of travel in Guatemala is a feast for the eyes: stunning volcanic peaks covered in a carpet of green -- cabbages, coffee, melons, bananas growing on impossibly steep hillsides -- and people working hard to wrestle a living… Continue reading
Feb 15 Early Takes on Egypt’s Revolution By Michael D. Mosettig It used to take decades for academics to sort out revolutions. For instance, Crane Brinton's still-revered (if not always correctly read) "Anatomy of a Revolution" was first published 20 years after the Russian Revolution and centuries after the French and… Continue reading
Feb 15 Iranian Lawmakers Call for Execution of Opposition Leaders, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi to Stand Trial Lawmakers in Tehran have called for the execution of two opposition leaders in response to growing protests, according to Iran's state-run television. Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussav, both former presidential candidates, were denounced by parliament after… Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch News Wrap: China Passes Japan to Become World’s No. 2 Economy In other news Monday, China passed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy after Japan's economy shrunk the final quarter of 2010. Japan has placed behind the U.S. for much of the past 40 years. In Iran, protests inspired by… Continue watching
Feb 14 Watch Debate Continues Over Social Media’s Role in Egyptian, Arab World Protests How Did Social Media Factor Into Egypt's Uprising?… Continue watching
Feb 14 Q&A: Following Upheaval in Egypt, Are Other Countries Next? By Larisa Epatko After government-toppling protests in Tunisia and Egypt, other "people power" protests are popping up around the region. Continue reading
Feb 14 Iranian Protesters Clash With Police By News Desk Protesters in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 14 (Source photo via AFP/Getty Images) Thousands of Iranian protesters clashed with police in central Tehran's Enghelab, or Revolution, square Monday in the largest opposition show of force in more than a year. The… Continue reading
Feb 14 Egypt’s Military Leaders Dissolve Parliament, Suspend Constitution, New Strikes Begin Updated 1:30 p.m. ET Egypt's army has called on protesters to clear Tahrir Square in the face of growing labor strikes. The military was considering a ban on such activities as Cairo struggles to return to normalcy following 18… Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch Social Media and Satellite TV: A One-Two Punch Against Mubarak As unrest ripples through the Middle East, Jeffrey Brown talks with Washington State University's Lawrence Pintak, Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara, Georgetown University's Adel Iskander and correspondent Margaret Warner, who just returned from Egypt, about how traditional media and social media… Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch News Wrap: Fighting in Southern Sudan Kills More Than 100 In other news Friday, more than 100 people died in Southern Sudan after a breakaway group ended a cease-fire and carried out attacks in two towns. Southern Sudan will become an independent nation in July. In Pakistan, an American diplomat… Continue watching